If you have the URL for the Weather blocks for PN, that woule be nice.
The user process I find unattractive is the password process. If I knew
PHP and MySQL, I would defintely contribute to this step
1) New user creates a username and enters a valid e-mail address.
2) Password is e-mailed to user.
3) User has to check E-mail,
4) revisit the site, enter the username and password. (Already too
long of a process for most)
5) User has to navigate to "My Account" and "Change your info" (2
clicks) to change the password to one that is easily remembered.
If the user forgets the password, the lay person should just e-mail the
admin for a password reset. Even I find this cumbersome and overkill
even for a techie.
1) Click to the login page
2) Click on "retreive lost password"
3) Enter either a username or email address (nice. I like the choice)
4) A confirmation code is sent to the user
5) User has to check email
6) User has to re-visit the site, click on "retreive lost password"
7) Enter username ot email address and confirmation code
8) Password is sent to user
9) User has to check Email again and get the password
10) User has to revisit the site and login
11) User at this point needs to change their password to one that is
easily remembered.
Now most users use an email client where the the POP server is checked
every 10 minutes. That makes this process take over 20 minutes for the
lay person.
What's wrong with the user picking their password at login and blocking
scripts out that automatically do this?
I think the layout should be changed for the "retreive lost password"
and the link should be called "reset password"
cparrish@carlparrish.com wrote:
>On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 11:10, Don Calfa wrote:
>
>
>>It seems to me that Postnuke is more stable-security oriented. PHPnuke
>>does have a ton of modules and blocks that I wish Postnuke would have.
>>
>>
>>One thing I like is the ability of PHPn to let the user choose their own
>>password. PostN is too confusing for the lay person. I have quite a
>>few users that don't know their passwords and the process is too
>>cumbersome to retreive it.
>>I also like the weather block for PHPn. The weather module for PostN is
>>fine but the ability to see it as a block is better I think.
>>
>>
>
>First off I'm going to admit that PHP-Nuke does have a *lot* more
>modules than PostNuke has. That said however I"m not sure what you mean
>about about the password. Users are able (after logging in with a pre
>selected passwd) to change their passwd to whatever they would like.
>(example site is www.carlparrish.com) How would you like it to work? My
>girlfriend agrees with you that PostNuke isn't for lay people I just
>can't seem to get her to describe to me how she thinks it should work so
>if you can I would appreciate it. Next there aren't as many weather mods
>in PN as there are in PHPn however we do have a few that allows the
>weather to be displayed in a block. If you want I can send you URLs.
>
>Thanks,
>Carl nolongeractiveinpostnukebutwillingtohelpout Parrish
>
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